The Fraternal Order of Elks (BPOE) has a writing contest you should check into.
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Well I think there fake contests
free-sweepstakes.blogspot.com is a good place to find some
some times community service, winning contests, doing good in school, and writing essays
It depends how many contests they enter in. Some skaters don't enter many contests and don't make as much money.
It will require some research but there are some activities out there. Such as free one day or so writing classes and contests for tall tales and short story essay writing. In the meantime use tools such as vocabulary booster books and practice over writing and grammer @ home to prepare your child for the contests. I love when children learn! Good Luck!! :)
Writerscafe.org and allpoetry.com have many free to enter poetry contests run by their members. There are also some other free to enter poetry competitions you can find by searching online. NYLiteraryMagazine.com runs monthly free to enter poetry contests with honor awards and a chance to get published in their print magazine.
Pomegranate Words, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers (Scholastic Writing Contest)
That's mostly impossible, but in WWE Magazine there are some contests.
Use your search engine for this one! Type in "writing contests young adult" and you'll see everything that's going on at this exact moment! This is going to change frequently, so keep trying and entering those contests.
In general, you can enter contests as often as you like. It might be bad if you were paying some kind of entry fee that you couldn't really afford. But every contest is different. Many contests are free to enter.
Sweepstaking is when you enter ALOT of prize contests online, through mail or draws. You enter these contests so often that it is almost certain you will win. There has been some cases where people have quit their jobs to live a life of sweepstaking, and some where almost everything they own was given to them through sweepstaking.